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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rowe remain on a loose quarantine?
(a) The military is worried about his safety.
(b) The outcome of tests are pending.
(c) He needs time to adjust to life again.
(d) He is ill.

2. What does Rowe tell the enemy?
(a) He wants to die.
(b) He is now a member of the Vietcong army.
(c) He is trying to escape.
(d) He had been gathering firewood and had become lost.

3. Rowe decides again to try an escape and plans to go in what?
(a) A car.
(b) A truck.
(c) A canal boat.
(d) A plane.

4. How quickly is Rowe recognized?
(a) Very quickly.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Very slowly.
(d) Not very quickly.

5. In a village near Tan Phu, why is Rowe recognized?
(a) He had been there prior to his capture to buy food.
(b) He had been there prior to his capture to offer help.
(c) He had been there to sell his fish.
(d) He had been there to catch the Vietcong.

6. Rowe knows that there might come a point at which he is released but hates the thought of what?
(a) Being left alone.
(b) Waiting until then.
(c) Where his captors will release him.
(d) Allowing his captors to hold that power over him.

7. Where is Rowe discovered?
(a) In his cell.
(b) Two kilometers away from the camp.
(c) In the office of the camp commander.
(d) One kilometer away from camp.

8. Who tells Rowe that the other three are being released but that Rowe will "rest here" for the foreseeable future?
(a) The three men.
(b) The camp translator.
(c) A Vietcong soldier.
(d) The camp commander.

9. What is the first thing Rowe is offered to eat?
(a) A donut.
(b) Bread.
(c) A muffin.
(d) Fruit cake.

10. Why is Rowe retrieved?
(a) Someone decides they want to take a Vietnamese prisoner.
(b) Someone hears him speaking in English.
(c) Someone notices he is not Vietnamese.
(d) Someone decides they want to save him.

11. How do many of the Vietnamese people feel about Rowe?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Angry.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Curious.

12. Initially, what does Rowe consider declining?
(a) To answer any questions.
(b) To sign a waiver of his rights prior to the debriefing.
(c) The right to tell his story in a book.
(d) The offer to make him a major.

13. How are the next nights a nightmare of pain?
(a) He has large welts all over his body from the whip.
(b) He receives thousands of mosquito bites.
(c) He is taunted by the Vietcong soldiers.
(d) He is dying from starvation.

14. Rowe arrives at his home and greets his father where?
(a) At the bus station.
(b) At the military base.
(c) At the airport.
(d) At the front door.

15. What does Rowe say that the guards refuse to accept?
(a) The men will not give in to the Vietcong's requests.
(b) The men are all willing to die for their country.
(c) Medicine was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners healthy.
(d) Adequate food was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners relatively healthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides moving, what else do the Vietcong do to stay out of harm's way?

2. When Rowe is some distance from camp, he encounters whom?

3. How does Rowe feel at this time?

4. What happens when one attacks a guard who comes too close?

5. Why are the men not allowed to buy food?

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